The Rules

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Bob Lefsetz’s Original Post – The Rules

Why does everybody think they’re so special, why are they convinced the rules don’t apply to them?

But what really bugged me today at Whole Foods, what I contemplate every time I go to this one former Westward Ho close to my abode, is the difficulty, at some times the impossibility, of getting a parking space.

It’s probably Donald Trump’s fault, right? Everything else is, in your TDS left coast progressive mentality.

Now there were fewer than two hands worth of shoppers in the store. I covered the aisles. But in the parking lot? There were over fifty cars, I had trouble getting a space.

So what was up with the extra cars?

Oh, the HUMANITY! Bob Lefsetz can’t find a parking spot at Whole Foods… Alert the media! Call Morning Joe, Don Lemon, CNN, Rachel Maddow, Kamala Harris, or Gavin Newsom! Quote another Bob Dylan lyric!

Now when I was growing up, reading about crimes by politicians, I thought enough sunlight, enough press, would radically reduce these illegal acts. But no, every generation comes along with its own strategies to bend the rules, rip the public off. I mean you’re an elected official and doing it in plain sight?

While you’re blowing a gasket over a lack of parking spots at Whole Foods, have you given any thought to your Governor Gavin Newsom’s pet project?

As of April 2026, California has spent approximately $15 billion to $15.7 billion on the California High-Speed Rail project over 16 years, with the estimated total cost rising to over $126 billion to $135 billion. Despite this expenditure, no operational track has been laid, and the projected completion date for the full system has been pushed back significantly.

​You could build a lot of spacious parking lots with that $15.7 BILLION dollars already spent on a high speed rail system to nowhere… But does THIS upset Bob Lefsetz???

​Then again, it comes from the top down. Trump is against mail-in voting, yet he just voted by mail. What did he say? That he is president, the rules are different for him.

He never said any such thing. Try and be just a teensy-weensy bit honest. And don’t be such a TDS ass, Bobby! Trump has approved several exceptions for mail-in voting:

“Trump has said he wants to limit mail-in voting, but the exceptions he’s indicated are for people who are ill, disabled, traveling, or in the military.” – Perplexity.ai

Don’t we know it, the rules are completely different for the rich, who do their best to not even rub elbows with the hoi polloi. 

And exactly how often does Bob Lefsetz “rub elbows with the hoi polloi” in your Los Angeles neighborhood? You live in a home owned by Felice Mancini worth $1,195,267!

​Even NIMBYISM. Don’t want those people living in my neighborhood… So where they should live?

Seriously? “So where they should live”?

Are there a lot of homeless people, illegal immigrants, blacks, Mexicans and Muslims living in your “Back Yard”, Mr. Lefsetz? What a blithering mind-numbed hypocrite! I don’t see any tent cities or homeless encampments in front of your million dollar plus residence…

Or this belief that you should not pay taxes… You drive on the roads, don’t you? You like having a police force and the fire department just a phone call away. Who is supposed to pay for this?

SOMEONE ELSE!

Precisely WHO ever said “you should not pay taxes”? Absolutely NOBODY! We ALL pay taxes, which are based upon local referendums and budgets passed by democratically elected representatives in their respective communities. But who is paying for Gavin Newsom’s high speed rail debacle?

Got to be the takers.

Everybody rationalizes their breaking of the rules, it’s not their fault, but someone else’s, they’re just keeping up with the Joneses, everybody does it.

I don’t think life will ever be fair. But it could be more fair than it is today. But that would require us all to agree we live in a society, that we’re in it together. And ultimately we do. You can live behind a wall with a security guard and that doesn’t mean you’re totally immune to crime.

And you can live in a house worth $1,195,267 – well, I sure can’t.

And who can you complain to? Who is going to take up the cause?

It sure won’t be Bob Lefsetz. He spends 57 days a year on expensive ski slopes with his designer sweaters, boots and skis, or flying first class around the world sleeping in fancy hotels and visiting foreign museums. And if he needs to see a doctor, he dials up his top dollar personal concierge physicians who are always at his beck and call. Meanwhile, I have to go see whoever has an opening and hope that Medicare will cover the cost.

The older I get I know there is no solution.

But that does not mean it doesn’t bother me.

You sure have a strange set of priorities, Bobby. You are bothered by all the wrong things, are hopelessly out of touch, and rapidly approaching senility. Time to retire, dude!